r/CarPlay

Hello,

I recently bough a 2021 rx450h.
Decided to buy wireless carplay adapter as well - ottocast U2Airpro.
Everything is fine with it - it connect, shows me the Carplay mode but…
The sound if you play spotify (thats what i usually do) is terrible compared to simple bluetooth connection. Is there any way to improve sound quality or it is just because of the wireless connection and there is nothing to do about it?

Thanks for your help in advance.

My iphone is not connecting to car play, other people’s iphone connect normally, but mine is not. What settings do I have to change to fix this.

My car is Toyota Camery
My iphone 17 pro

Keeping in mind that it used to work before

TLDR; iphone 16 pro max disconnects from bmw carplay every time i use voice dictate, and will not reconnect unless i reboot my car’s computer system.

hi all.
i have a brand new 2026 bmw x3.

the first time i had this problem was literally driving off the lot the first day i owned it. it took 3 months to realize what was causing it. please let me know if anyone has any kind of experience with this because nobody knows what to do with me.

My BMW and iPhone 16 Pro Max are connected via carplay.
while driving if I park or at a red light, want to respond to a text message and I click the voice dictation button on my iPhone in any app, 1 of 3 things will happen:

1. whatever I’m trying to dictate is written out and duplicated 500 times. then my carplay crashes and it disconnects from my phone. bmw will then be unable to reconnect to my phone. The only way to get my phone to reconnect is to delete my phone from my device devices in my car., delete my BMW Bluetooth from my iPhone, and hold the power button on my car to reboot idrive. this often happens when I’m in the middle of driving, which causes me to have to pull over and reset my car bevause then i can’t see my map!!
2. Voice dictation will not glitch and Will properly write whatever I’m trying to dictate, but my phone will still disconnect and refuse to reconnect.
3. Sometimes nothing happens and it works. But that’s rare.

I can’t just not use voice dictation. I’m paying a lot of money for this car and this seems ridiculous to have to just accept and get over.

when I have had my car serviced the loaner cars they have given me have not had this issue and nobody else that I know with a BMW has this issue so it is clearly a problem with my car.

however, the service department doesn’t know what to do with me. Who should I reach out to?

i have a mercedes Cla 2017 and i’ve had carplay and been using it obvious via charger but now the option has disappeared and i can find how to get to the part where the screen says connect apple carplay. i’ve literally tried everything but idk how to get to the option to select carplay pleaseeeee help!!! pleaseee

Dealing with a weird one. Wireless CarPlay in my car keeps stuttering, sounds like a scratched record. It’s when I’m listening to something like Books using the text-to-speech feature (no music, just spoken audio).

Here’s the part that’s been bugging me: if I turn CarPlay off completely and listen to my Books over plain Bluetooth, it’s totally smooth, every time. Zero issues. So it really seems like it’s something specific to the wireless CarPlay connection and not my phone or the car’s Bluetooth in general.

I’ve tried re-pairing from scratch a few times, forgetting and re-adding the device, messing with some connectivity settings on the car’s side, even tried a background noise trick on my iPhone to mask silent gaps during speech, that helped a tiny bit but didn’t actually fix it. My car is a 2025 Lincoln Nautilus and only has wireless CarPlay, no wired option.

Anyone else run into stutter specifically on wireless CarPlay while regular Bluetooth stays fine? Any solutions?

Need help brainstorming some different ways to upgrade my 2013 Avalon with CarPlay. I’ve seen dash kits but they’re glossy and throw off the look. I’ve also seen some people replace their whole radio with a 2015 model with a CarPlay update.

Anyone have any ideas? I’d like to spend less than $200 on this.

Thanks!

My phone connects to my GMCs Bluetooth but not CarPlay. If it does connect, it’s only for a second then it disconnect again. Anyone else have this issue? I assume it’s on Apple

Hi! I can’t seem to get Amazon Music to show on CarPlay (Carpuride if that helps). When I go into my phones CarPlay settings, the Amazon music app doesn’t show at all so I can’t add it to the screen. Any tips and tricks to get it showing in CarPlay and therefore on my Carpuride screen?

Official kits are specifically engineered to interface directly with your car’s original CAN-bus system. This ensures complete retention of your vehicle's factory hardware, including:

• Steering wheel controls: Volume, track skip, and voice command buttons continue to work natively.
• Factory rotary dials/trackpads: Systems like BMW iDrive, Audi MMI, or Mercedes COMAND retain full knob-based navigation within CarPlay/Android Auto interfaces.
• Original reverse/360° cameras: official kits switch instantly and automatically to backup cameras or parking sensors without black screens or latency.

And most importantly, because official kits interface directly with CAN-bus system of your car - the Dead Reckoning system is present. Dead Reckoning is a feature that allows navigation apps (Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze) to continue tracking your position precisely when GPS signals are blocked—such as inside tunnels, multi-level parking garages, or dense urban canyons.

Rather than relying solely on satellite signals, the CarPlay/Android Auto protocol is designed to ingest real-time vehicle telemetry - specifically wheel speed sensors (wheel ticks), gyroscope/yaw rate data, steering angle, and gear selection (forward/reverse).

The presence or absence of Dead Reckoning integration is one of the most significant technical differences between official/OEM retrofits and generic aftermarket solutions.

Decided to post for educational purposes only, because no one seem to know, however it's probably more important for people who own older cars and want CarPlay/Android Auto.
Think about it before deciding to buy some Chinese knockoff retrofit kit for your car. Also if you already have wired CarPlay/Andoid Auto and want wireless - keep in mind that most wireless adapters don't transmit car telemetry, so its going to be using your phone GPS and nothing else.

Tried a couple cheap wireless CarPlay adapters and they keep dropping connection mid-drive or lagging when switching apps. Looking for one that's actually reliable, budget's not a huge issue just want something that works consistently. What's actually held up for you guys daily driving?

Hi everyone, I’m working on a car project where I’d like to install two separate wireless CarPlay displays.
One would be in the center of the dashboard, replacing the original head unit, while the second one would be positioned in front of the steering wheel and used like a digital instrument cluster.
My question is: can two wireless CarPlay receivers/displays be connected to the same iPhone at the same time? Ideally, I’d like both screens to receive CarPlay simultaneously from the same phone.
Has anyone tried something like this, or knows if iOS allows two CarPlay connections at once?
Thanks!

Has anyone else experienced an issue where Spotify continues playing in the background without pausing when an incoming phone call or text message comes in while using CarPlay on a 2025 Solterra? Curious if this is a known bug or if there’s a setting I'm missing. — feeling frustrated.

There seem to be a few CarPlay compatible options in the App Store nowadays. Any recommendation for the ‘best’ one?